 | William Carpenter - Great Britain - 1833 - 270 pages
...real existence ; and wherever it cannot be produced in a visible form, there is none. A constitution is a thing: antecedent to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution. The constitution of a country is not the act of its government, but of the people constituting... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Political science - 1837 - 716 pages
...real existence ; and wherever it cannot be produced in a visible form, there is none. A constitution is a thing antecedent to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution. The constitution of a country is not the act of its government, but of the people constituting... | |
 | Thomas Branagan, Julius Rubens Ames - Charity organization - 1839 - 404 pages
...real existence ; and whenever it can. not be produced in a visible form, there is none. A constitution is a thing antecedent to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution. The constitution of a country is not the act of its government, but of the people constituting... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - Constitution - 1888 - 474 pages
...real existence, and wherever it cannot be produced in a visible form, there is none. A constitution is a thing antecedent to a government ; and a government is only the creature of a constitution. — A constitution of a country is not the act of its government, but of the people constituting... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...real existence, and wherever it cannot be produced in a visible form, there is none. A constitution is a thing antecedent to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution. The constitution of a country is not the act of its government,, but of a people constituting... | |
 | Thomas Paine - France - 1892 - 300 pages
...real existence ; and wherever it cannot be produced in a visible form, there is none. A constitution is a thing antecedent to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution. The constitution of a country is not the act of its government, but of the people constituting... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison - United States - 1894 - 980 pages
...wherever it cannot be produced in a visible form, there is none. A constitution is a thing-antecedent to a government ; and a government is only the creature of a constitution. — A constitution of a country Is not the act of Its government, but of the people constituting... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1908 - 374 pages
...real existence; and wherever it cannot be produced in a visible form, there is none. A constitution is a thing antecedent to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution. The J 63 constitution of a country is not the act of its government, but of the people... | |
 | Alice Hubbard - Conduct of life - 1918 - 382 pages
...real existence; and wherever it can not be produced in a visible form, there is none. A constitution is a thing antecedent to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution. The constitution of a country is not the act of its government, but of the people constituting... | |
 | Kerry C. Larson - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 298 pages
...Constitution," for if his definition is to retain credibility, if it is indeed the case that a "constitution is a thing antecedent to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution,"16 then it follows that Paine is imagining — somehow, somewhere — a communit)' whose... | |
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A constitution is a thing antecedent to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution. The constitution of a country is not the act of its government, but of the people constituting a government. 
